CERG Members Contribute to the Working the Group on Youth Governance Indicators
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) should be monitored in a way that both captures the experiences and views of youth and includes young people in processes …
Pamela Wridt
Spatializing Children’s Rights: A Comparison of Two Case Studies from Urban India
This article presents a child rights-based, participatory and intergenerational assessment and planning methodology that empowers communities to collect, analyze, and act upon data summarizing the …
Childhoods in Place and Placeless Childhoods: An Historical Geography of Young People In Yorkville and East Harlem 1940-2000
This dissertation provides an analysis of how young people’s everyday lives outside of school in Yorkville and East Harlem have changed from the 1940s until present …
Participatory Mapping Approaches to Coordinate the Emergency Response of Spontaneous Volunteers After Hurricane Sandy
This article demonstrates the potential of participatory mapping approaches to coordinate spontaneous volunteers and assist government agencies and humanitarian organizations in emergency contexts. The research …
The Neighborhood Atlas Project: An example of participatory action research in geography education
In this paper I present a model for participatory action research (PAR) in geography education with middle school teachers and students to learn about children’s …
An historical analysis of young people’s use of public space, parks and playgrounds in New York City
In this paper I present childhood biographies of three people who grew up in or near a public housing development located on the border between …
Block politics
This paper explores how young people have experienced everyday life on ‘the block’ in a racially diverse lower to working class community in New York …
uMAP! An educational resource on how to conduct participatory community mapping with children and youth to create social and environmental change
This online resource is a clearinghouse of information on how to conduct community mapping with and for children and youth growing up in urban areas to …
A qualitative GIS approach to mapping urban neighborhoods with children to promote physical activity and child-friendly community planning
As the obesity epidemic in children increases, it is important to consider the role of neighborhoods in supporting children’s physical activity and healthy development, especially …
Creating child friendly cities: the case of Denver, USA
Referencing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as the basis to make cities more supportive of children’s needs, this paper discusses the …
